China blocks request to put Masood Azhar on UN terror list

AFP

NEW YORK -- China Wednesday (March 13) put on hold a request by Great Britain, France and the United States to add Masood Azhar, leader of Pakistan- based Jaish-e-Muhammad (JeM), the Islamist group behind a suicide attack in Kashmir, to the United Nations (UN) terror blacklist, diplomats said.

It was the fourth time that the UN Security Council was considering a request to put Azhar on the UN sanctions blacklist, which would subject him to a global travel ban, an assets freeze and an arms embargo.